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46 CAMPING AND WOODCRAFTticable until everything freezes up. But the generalrule of aboriginal travel was to keep away fromstreams <strong>and</strong> follow the ridges between them. Thisrule stillholds good when a party travels afoot orwith pack-train in a country where there are noFig. 7.—Use of Dividesbridges. A glance at the ac<strong>com</strong>panying diagram(Fig. 7) will show why.In this figure, AG represents a river,<strong>and</strong> CF themain divide or summit of watershed separating itfrom another river basin. It is assumed that a partyafoot or with horses desires to advance from A to G.Evidently, if they try to follow either bank of themain stream, they will have many fords to make, not

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